Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people. So the exploration into different musics of different times has to do with trying to figure out who these people are, what this music represents and what context do we want to give it and what does it mean to us right now.
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
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'I bound her to me in all soft ways,I bound her to me in a net of days,Yet now she has gone in silence and said no word.How can we face these dazzling things, I ask you?There is no use: we cry: and are not heard.
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I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
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I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
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I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.